At 21:30 -0500 3/3/09, Robert Schaaf wrote:
> a_string.tr('^ -~', ' ') Any comments on efficiency?
That's pretty much equivalent to this code:
a.gsub(/[^\x20-\x7e]/, ' ')
It may or may not be faster, more to your taste, etc.
Before using it, be sure that you don't want to preserve
characters such as tabs and/or newlines...
-r
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